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You might have heard theories from last century about how men are better at math than women because they have bigger brains.
By the end of the 14th century, Alpine cheese from the Gruyere region of Switzerland had become so profitable that a neighboring state invaded the Gruyere highlands to take control of the growing cheese trade.
Second, instead of debating endlessly about what is the structure of the state, why don't we simplify and say, what are a series of functions that the state in the 21st century must perform?
Our educational systems are inherited from the 19th century.
Before the Antarctic ozone hole, scientists expected maybe a five or 10 percent reduction in ozone over a century.
So as we write the story for earth's climate future for this century and beyond, we need to ask ourselves, what will our actions be so that someone can stand on this stage in 30 or 50 or a hundred years to celebrate the world that they've avoided.
But the streets of the 21st century are a great case study teeming with transience, cross purposes and disarray.
We don't live in the 19th century anymore.
Dir was founded in the 17th century.
By the end of the century, Shakespeare was using “Machiavel” to denote an amoral opportunist, leading directly to our popular use of “Machiavellian” as a synonym for manipulative villainy.
But in the twentieth century, a Japanese folder named Yoshizawa came along, and he created tens of thousands of new designs.
Cast your mind back to the 16th century, a time of scientific revolution in Europe.
Something we think of today as female genital mutilation was practiced in the West as late as the 20th century.
Well, the question of origins, as with so many other questions in biology, seems to have been answered by Darwin over a century ago.
The first person to do this systematically was Linnaeus, Carl von Linne, a Swedish botanist, who in the eighteenth century took it upon himself to categorize every living organism on the planet.
It's easy to dismiss this as the perhaps well-intentioned but ultimately benighted musings of an eighteenth century scientist working in the pre-Darwinian era.
Urban Dictionary - your source for news and information about the 21st century zeitgeist - describes sex education as: ".. where they try to scare you out of having sex with pictures of diseased genitals..." A more hopeful description of sex education would be something like: a lifelong process of learning about sex and sexuality, exploring values and beliefs and gaining skills to navigate relationships and manage your sexual health.
So, in the last century, OK, people debated about whether this expansion of space would continue forever; whether it would slow down, you know, will be slowing down, but continue forever; slow down and stop, asymptotically stop; or slow down, stop, and then reverse, so it starts to contract again.
Written in the early nineteenth century, Austen's novels decode the sheltered lives of the upper classes in rural England.
Was a beloved pianist, maybe the great cult pianist of the twentieth century.
It's going to be the Department of Agriculture for the 21st century.
The Digital Highway arrived in America's living rooms late in the twentieth century.
Despite these possible omissions and her untimely death, what survives is one of the most extraordinary bodies of work by a twentieth century poet.
That's the question I get asked as I'm going around the world: "Jane, you've seen so many terrible things, you've seen your chimpanzees decrease in number from about one million, at the turn of the century, to no more than 150,000 now, and the same with so many other animals.
So, response planning in the twenty-first century is both possible and is essential.
For nearly a century, ten inkblots like these have been used as what seems like an almost mystical personality test.
Invented in the early 20th century by Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach, the Rorschach Test is actually less about the specific things we see, and more about our general approach to perception.
The "blank slate" was an influential idea in the 20th century.
Now, on the other hand, in the second half of the 20th century, the arts are frequently said to be in decline.
I mean, this is perhaps a representative example of the visual depiction of the female form in the 15th century; here is a representative example of the depiction of the female form in the 20th century.
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